by Plastics.com Staff | Sep 10, 2018 | Consumer, Daily News, Environmental, Europe, Global, Injection Molding, Part Design
Billund, Denmark — At the heart of this town lies a building that is a veritable temple to the area’s most famous creation, the humble Lego brick. It is filled with complex creations, from a 50-foot tree to a collection of multicoloured dinosaurs, all of them built...
by Plastics.com Staff | Aug 16, 2018 | Business, Commodity Polymers, Consumer, Daily News, North America, Part Design, Profile
When “American Horror Story,” the Museum of Modern Art and “Napoleon Dynamite” pay homage to an invention, you know it’s made a cultural impact in a big way. Tupperware has a staying power that most plastic products don’t. So far, it has evaded the anti-plastics...
by Plastics.com Staff | Aug 7, 2018 | Consumer, Daily News, Environmental, Global, Part Design, Recycling
As technology finds innovative ways to recycle, waste products are being used in an unlikely range of goods in high street stores. First it was “bags for life”, chunky doormats and, more recently, clothing such as fleeces, swimwear and pack-away macs. Now towels made...
by Plastics.com Staff | Aug 6, 2018 | Business, Daily News, Europe, Global, Part Design
UK — Plastics have been a mainstay of product design for so long that the idea of living without them – or even reducing their use – is almost unthinkable. The advantages of plastic are clear: almost infinite adaptability in terms of shape; light weight; durability;...
by Plastics.com Staff | Aug 2, 2018 | Consumer, Daily News, Environmental, North America, Part Design
2018 will forever be remembered as the year that hating plastic straws went mainstream. Once the lonely cause of environmental cranks, now everyone wants to eliminate these suckers from daily life. In July, Seattle imposed America’s first ban on plastic straws....
by Plastics.com Staff | Jul 12, 2018 | Business, Daily News, Mergers & Acquisitions, Mfg On Demand, North America, Part Design
Xometry Inc., an online marketplace for custom-manufactured parts, has acquired rival firm MakeTime Inc. and raised $25 million to fuel future expansion. The deal creates what Xometry says is the industry’s largest distributed on-demand manufacturing network, with...
